no it's on right now. it's been relatively violence-free, but it is already intense (without any profanity). the tension is thick. it's fascinating.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)
some PBS stations are wary about airing it unedited, since the FCC hasn't said whether they'll come after them for the curse words in the footage.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=638&e=2&u=/nm/20050222/en_nm/media_frontline_dc
PBS Stations Divided on 'Frontline' Iraq Film
Tue Feb 22, 5:58 PM ET
Entertainment - Reuters
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Almost 50 of the nearly 350 Public Broadcasting Service stations plan to air a documentary on Tuesday night about U.S. troops in Iraq (news - web sites) that includes extensive profanity, despite warnings the coarse language could land them in trouble with federal regulators.
PBS has offered its affiliates two versions of the 90-minute "Frontline" production titled "A Company of Soldiers" -- one uncensored and one that bleeped out 13 expletives uttered by U.S. troops in the film.
PBS said Boston-based station WGBH, which produces the "Frontline" investigative series, warned sister stations that if they chose to carry the unedited version, they did so at their own risk....
[...]
In November, nearly a third of ABC's television affiliates declined to show the network's Veterans Day broadcast of the celebrated war film "Saving Private Ryan," citing concerns about how the FCC would react to profanity and graphic violence in the film.
Their skittishness was due in part to the FCC's refusal to say in advance how it would deal with a specific broadcast.
Last month, a majority of the commission voted to deny viewer complaints that ABC stations violated indecency rules when they aired "Ryan," according to an agency official. The FCC's final decision has yet to be announced.
OF COURSE the FCC won't say in advance whether they'll do anything or not; that'd be censorship, which we all know the FCC simply doesn't do...
― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)
the american public has let these soldiers down, already. George W. Bush will never know what he's put them through. I feel fucking ashamed.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)
Well, what I meant was i wish i could downloadl it. I don't get PBS.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)
hAHAHAHAHAHA XPOST
dude thermo you can probably order it from the link! support pbs, don't download.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)
Oh hey! I can buy it!
For some reason I thought PBS made everything (freely) available on their site which is what I had in mind at first.
So is this worth $30 U.S.?
xpost - WHO TOLD YOU?
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)
i'm the wrong person to ask whether it's worth $30, but i pay $40 a month to watch cable, and since all the basketball games i watch are subsidized by commercials, i'll say yes, it's worth $30.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)
probably not, it was only an hour and a half. I still wanna read jarhead.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)